• Develop and execute a risk-based annual internal control review and testing plan aligned with key financial and operational risks.

• Review and assess internal controls across financial, operational, commercial, manufacturing, and supporting processes.

• Identify control weaknesses, process gaps, financial risks, policy breaches, and instances of non-compliance, and assess the potential impact where reasonably quantifiable.

• Perform periodic control testing to determine whether established controls are appropriately designed and operating effectively.

• Review selected financial transactions and supporting documentation for appropriate authorization, accuracy, completeness, and compliance with company policies and the Delegation of Authority.

• Review key financial reconciliations and follow up on unusual, long-outstanding, unsupported, or unexplained items.

• Monitor controls relating to accounts payable, accounts receivable, revenue, expenses, cash, banking, treasury, and general ledger activities.

• Review inventory controls, including stock movements, adjustments, write-offs, physical counts, production/warehouse interfaces, and inventory variances.

• Review procurement processes for compliance with purchasing policies, approval requirements, competitive sourcing requirements, and Delegation of Authority.

• Assess controls over vendor and customer master data, pricing, discounts, rebates, promotions, credit terms, and other commercially sensitive transactions.

• Review controls over fixed assets and capital expenditure, including capitalization, transfers, disposals, tagging, and physical verification.

• Review ERP and system-based controls relevant to financial and operational processes, including user access, segregation of duties, maker-checker controls, approval workflows, privileged access, master-data changes, and significant manual overrides.

• Monitor compliance with company policies, procedures, approval limits, and established control requirements and identify recurring or systemic exceptions.

• Conduct risk-based reviews of selected transactions, branches, warehouses, routes, business processes, or other areas based on risk indicators and management priorities.

• Identify unusual transactions, trends, exceptions, management overrides, conflicts of interest, or activities that may indicate control weakness, fraud risk, misuse of company assets, or financial exposure.

• Support investigations into suspected financial irregularities, policy violations, fraud indicators, or control failures as directed, while preserving confidentiality and appropriate documentation.

• Recommend practical corrective actions and process improvements that address root causes without assuming responsibility for implementation by the process owner.

• Maintain a formal Control Findings Register showing the finding, risk rating, root cause, financial exposure where applicable, agreed action, responsible owner, target date, status, and ageing.

• Follow up with responsible departments on agreed corrective actions and monitor timely closure; verify closure evidence for significant findings before marking them complete.

• Maintain appropriate documentation of control reviews, testing performed, evidence reviewed, findings, management responses, and closure verification.

• Support the development and review of policies, procedures, control matrices, Delegation of Authority requirements, and related control documentation.

• Coordinate with Finance, Internal Audit, External Audit, Compliance, IT, and other departments on control-related matters while avoiding duplication of independent assurance work.

• Support management in strengthening the overall control environment and promoting a culture of accountability, transparency, and compliance.

• Perform other control, compliance, and risk-related duties consistent with the independence and purpose of the role, as assigned by the Compliance Manager.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Auditing, or a related discipline.

• Professional qualification or progress toward a qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CPA, CMA, CIMA, CIA, or equivalent is preferred.

• Approximately 4-7 years of relevant experience in internal controls, finance, internal audit, external audit, compliance, or risk management.

• Experience within FMCG, food manufacturing, manufacturing, distribution, or a similar inventory-intensive environment is strongly preferred.

• Strong understanding of accounting principles, financial processes, internal controls, business process risks, Delegation of Authority, and segregation-of-duties concepts.

• Practical experience reviewing procurement, inventory, manufacturing, sales, receivables, payables, cash-management, fixed-asset, and commercial processes.

• Experience working with ERP systems and system-based controls; familiarity with Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar platforms is advantageous.

• Good understanding of Microsoft Excel and data-analysis techniques, with the ability to identify trends, exceptions, and unusual transactions from large data sets.

• Strong professional judgement, integrity, confidentiality, analytical ability, communication skills, and confidence to challenge control weaknesses constructively.